I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.
Odd, considering I hadn't posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that "Mod" had banned a bunch of people citing "Rule 5."
Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).
I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?
And my apologies if this isn't the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.
I think I can explain it. I think it's abnormal behavior to downvote outside of misinformation or out of context. I also think it's abnormal to ban anyone who downvotes, but both of you have the right to do so. Neither of you broke a site-wide rule, unless you didn't follow the guidelines in their community sidebar before participating. Them choosing to remove the mod is the communities right and I support that. I look at the form of downvoting you're conducting as a form of vote brigading (socially, not directed by an individual but a group effort nonetheless with evidence by the bans). If bans for non-participation go out and downvotes continue, they can better get a grasp of what the actual community wants. Atm they're just following what the "All" feed tells them without being able to differentiate.
You're welcome to look on that however you like, but that's not what brigading is; actual brigading is a coordinated attack by a group of accounts to affect the vote count of a specific community or user. That's why it's called brigading; you're supposed to be part of a brigade.
It's great that you only downvote things taken out of context or misinformation, but it's not abnormal to use voting to express approval or disapproval for opinions. The vote counts on this thread show that most people are using voting this way.
thanks for ignoring my statement on the difference in brigading so you could brake off into a diatribe -_-. The Jan 6th wasn't a brigade, just ask Trump. Just need some social boogeymen to stir up trouble and it becomes a "natural" problem, not a brigade. "The vote counts on this thread show that most people are using voting this way.", in this space, about lemmy drama and a small echo chamber.
Look I'll be honest and let you know you just seem like a spoiled down-voter after all of our back and forth. You don't follow the communities rules, you don't belong to the community, you constantly downvote in a negative way, and the only people who have broken a rule, is this post with all the people talking about the ban on here (instead of privately reaching out like is spelled out).
You don't care about the community, only your ability to downvote on anything you want
By people who never participate or even belong in the community, who downvotes because of .... feelings. You're the perfect example of the Paradox of tolerance, by allowing your views you will only wish to silence and put down other's who you don't agree with.